Higher dimensional categories: from double to multiple categories / Macro Grandis

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction --
Part I From Categories to Double Categories -- A Review of Basic Category Theory -- Introducing Two-Dimensional Category Theory -- Double Categories -- Double Adjunctions -- Double Limits --
Part II Multiple Categories -- Weak and Lax Multiple Categories -- Multiple Adjunctions -- Monads and Algebras for Multiple Categories --
Appendix A -- Applications in Homological Algebra and Algebraic Topology --
Appendix B -- Symmetric Cubical Sets and Cubical Categories --
Appendix C -- Solutions and Hints --
References --
Index

This book can be used as a textbook for graduate and postgraduate studies, and as a basis for research. Notions are presented in a 'concrete' way, with examples and exercises; the latter are endowed with a solution or hints. Part I, devoted to double categories, starts at basic category theory and is kept at a relatively simple level. Part II, on multiple categories, can be used independently by a reader acquainted with 2-dimensional categories.